Chuck Palahniuk definitely likes Katherine Dunn a lot. He mentions it (I think) in his essay collection, but if not there, then I heard him say it at a book signing. I think Dunn is a more human writer than Palahniuk, and that she hasn't put out a novel since, at least I can surmise she's more discerning than he.

I was left a little underwhelmed by the cataclysm there too, and the final Miss Lick/Oly deal. But I tend to reflect on books like this a lot more than a more tightly plotted work. I think we're (although maybe this is just me) trained to expect an ending that wraps up everything in the story into a neat little…

I was infuriated by the parents' inaction, at first, but then that sank into despair once Arty had installed Doc P to finish his Big Al's emasculation.

If you'd read Snuff, you'd understand.

The one line that made me smile in Snuff was the bit about the cattle-prod dick of death. But only because it was so fucking absurdly ridiculous.

I'm with you on that.

Waiting.
I have been waiting for this book for seven years.

Yeah - Frank Black. Yeah - at least those three of Wu-Tang. Ani DiFranco (and she's had some missteps).

Can a brother get
Some Arturo Perez-Reverte?

Doak and JohnnyRuin -

I'm throwing my hat with New Dharma, or at least the original DI's source of funding, Hanso. They perfectly paralleled Miles' final flashback with the arrival of the Ann Arbor contingent. I think Eloise might be grouped with them (she was ensconced in the old Dharma-related station in LA). I feel an appearance by…

I'm down with New Dharma as well. The parallel between the final Miles flashback and getting tapped to meet the people from Ann Arbor seemed too perfect not to mean something.

Does anyone else think Ben won't make it back to the main island? He got knocked out in "Namaste"; it's conceivable to me that something will happen to him each time he tries to get there that will set him back.

Word to that, Ryan the Bruce. Ben could murder a hospital full of newborns with a ball peen hammer and he'd still be my favorite character.

cheers to that.

It sounds really odd to us common folk, but I seem to recall a similar situation involving Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, in which Reprise (a subsidiary of AOL Time Warner) refused to release the album for lack of a marketable single. They get rights to album, shop it around, and sell it to Nonesuch, another…